[GRLUG] $50K Prize if You Find Way to Block Robocalls

[Joseph McLaughlin]

How about a list of BAD companies on the web. Humans could then boycott the robo's!
 
Joe

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 From: L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net>
To: "Mailing List for LUG in greater Grand Rapids, MI area." <grlug at grlug.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] $50K Prize if You Find Way to Block Robocalls
 
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Benjamin Flanders wrote:

> Does Google Voice have an api?  The only way I could see to do this would
> be a rather large invasion of privacy and only work for Google voice
> customers.  Send every incoming number to a service that checks to see if
> that same number called other GV users in a pattern indicative of a robo
> call.
>
Not that simple to implement - anyone can block callerID when placing the
call - only the 911 service, banks, or DHS can penetrate.

    Lee
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